The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-12
pEPRAvEp aLurrONS.
Some Distinguished Cases OF Terrible and
Unblushing Appetites.

Some Distinguished Cases OF Terrible and
UnbiushIng Appetites.
Elizabeth Charlotte. the Duchess OF
Orleans. writing under date of Dccem.
Der 8. 171S, says: "Thc late King mon
sicur the Dauphin, and the Due dc Bcrri
were enormous eaters. / have often
seen the King eat four plates of differ
cnt kinds of soup. whole pheasant. u
partridge, dish of salad, two thick
slices of ham. mutton favored with
garlic, plateful of pastry, and finish
his rcpast with fruit and hard boiled
eggs" There was good old German
from Wittenberg, where my lord Ham
let attended the university, who had II
fine faculty for storing away provender.
His case Is well attested. For u wager
he would eat whole sheep or whole
pig, or put out of sight u bushel of cher
ries. stones and all. He lived until lie
was about eighty years of age, II great
portion of the time supporting himself
by exhibiting the popularity of his
appetite, which, to say the least, must
have been very eccentric one. Thus,
he would chew glass, earthenware
and flint into small fragments. He
had an especial preference for cater
pillars, mice and birds. and when
these were not procurablc he would
content himself with mineral SUBJ
stances. Once he put down his "maw
and gulf pen, the ink and the sand
pounce and he would have gobbled the
inkstand, too, had he not been re-
strained. Taylor, the water poet, tells
of Nicholas Wood, of the county of
Kent. in England, who was tolcrably
good trencherman. On one occasion
he got away with whole sheep; at
another time with several rabbits; at {.
third with three dozen pigeons-well
grown pigeons, not squads; again with
eighteen yards of black puddings and
on two other occasions sixty pounds of
cherries and three pecks of dawsons.
DR.. Copeland, in speaking of two chill
dren who had wonderful appetites, the
youngest seven years old being the
worst. said: "The quantity of food de-
voured by her was astonishing. Every
thing that could be laid hold of, even
| in its raw state. was seized upon most
greedily. Other articles. an uncoolled
rabbit, half pound of candles and
some butter, were taken at one time.
The mother stated that this little girl,
who was apparently in good health
otherwise, took more food if she could
! possibly obtain it, than the rest of her
4 Fn mil st.,t,, IS Il.
self" A trifie over II hundred years
ago London youth ate five pounds
of shoulder of lamb and two quarts
OF green peas in fifty minutes;
and a Polish soldier. who was
presented ut the court of Saxony. sue
cecded in one day in getting outside of
twenty pounds of beef and half IL roast
calf. with the appropriate "tixings." s"
When George Ill. was King watch
makers apprentice, nineteen years OF
age, in three-quarters of an hour de-
voured a leg of pork weighing six
pounds and proportionate quantity OF
pease pudding, washing all down with
u pint of brandy, taken in two "tots. ~
The tall Nick Davenport, the actor, is
known to have eaten II seven-pound
turkey at single sitting. Instances of
depraved appetite are numerous. and
men have been known to swallow fire,
swords, spiders, flies, toads, scrpents,
cotton. hair, paper, wood, cinders,
sand. earth, clay, chalk, flint, musl,e,
balls and earthenware. One man could
swallow billiard balls and gold watches
In the New York medical journals fol
1882 record is made of n man who
could swallow clasp knives with i'm.
punity. One day he ovcrdid the bust.
ness by swallowing fourteen and il
killed him, which well it might. In
1870 in England, two men of Wiltshire
wagered with each other rs to which
should consume the greatest quantity
of food in the shortest space of time.
One of them blotted from existence six
pounds and half of rabbit, loaf of
bread and two pounds of cheese in a
quarter of an hour, and he was SO
pleased with the appreciation he re-
ceived from the bystanders that he fin.
ishcd off with beefsteak. u pint and a
half of gin and Il half pint of brandy
Good Housekeeping.
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